You might be a third world country if …

October 13, 2004by atanu

To me, one of the hazards of delayed flights is that I tend to read whatever I find lying around. A few days ago I found myself reading a discarded newspaper at an airport. I should not have but morbid curiosity won. A news item proudly reported that the president of India recommended that children take an oath and foreswear corruption.

There you have it. As you are well aware, children indulge in corruption like nobody’s business in India. Scams perpetrated by the scores hit the newspapers with sickening regularity. One day you hear that a bunch of children have accepted kickbacks to the tune of hundreds of mllions of dollars in military equipment purchase. Next day you read about a couple of children who were involved in siphoning a few hundred million dollars’ worth of public monies meant for ‘fodder’. Then you read that some children were caught running a fake stamp-paper racket and the loss to the public purse was of the order of a few billion dollars.

I tell you, the corruption that children are responsible for is a crying shame. It is a matter of great urgency that they stop it immediately and the best way to do so is to force them to take an oath that they will cease and desist from ever indulging in corruption. I am very relieved that this terrible problem has been addressed at last.

Which brings me to conclude that if you figure lecturing innocent children solves the problem of institutionalized corruption by the bureaucracy and practically every politician of every party, then you might be a third world country.

You might be a Third World country if the President is someone who shoots his mouth off on issues that are not rocket science, but demand objective thinking and common sense….qualities he sadly lacks.

There should be laws preventing public figures from making random statements on issues they have no depth or background in.

http://sanspeak.blogspot.com Santoshkumar

Dear Atanu,

I completely agree with you that Childrens are creating nuisance in this country. I have even started blogging on the issues of Third World.

Ah! got it thats why these kids are tried hundreds of years in court ….so that they reach there maturity age.

And left after little bit of spanking. Telgi next time if you do a stamp ghotala I will tell your mother dude ?

Thanks Man…
Santy

Mahesh Shantaram

This one goes out to Jyoti… A more serious problem is the general public making random statements on issues they have no depth or background in. What’s great about India is that there isn’t a law to prevent that, and hence the constant hum in the Indian blogspace…